I have searched to no avail. I would appreciate ANY INFO ON A CHEAP WAY to
get local OTA HD on a HD ready tv without an internal tuner. What type of cheap STB would YOU RECOMMEND ?

I DID FIND SOMETHING ABOUT A POWERED INDOOR ANTENNA ? I don't want to spend alot and don't want to run wires for the antenna in case I do spend the dough on a DISH HD reciver in the future which according to them will pass the HD locals without an OTA antenna, of course for the 5.95 a month or whatever.
Just want a taste of HD for football games.

Thx for any info.

Bill E.

Hughes HTL-HD for OTA HD Box. It's a former DirecTV box but will work as standalone without requiring Access Card and without requiring subscription. Try the Zenith Silver Sensor ZHDTV1 Antenna without a signal booster and see how that works out.

If you are trying to pick up a signal that is 80+ miles away, then try a (pre)amplifier. I personally am using the Motorola Signal Booster, with 15dB amplification and 2dB of noise. Note that using a signal booster might strengthen the signals you get across the board but it may actually screw up the signals too if the broadcasting station is too close.

I've got a CBS station that is about 9 miles away and I get breakup sometimes with the amplifier (without it, I don't get the stutter and macroblocking). It does, however, boost my signals that are originating from 80+ miles away, which coincidently include another CBS station that produces very few video stutter.

Do you have to connect the coax "out to tv" along with the dvi connection from the hughes htl-hd to the tv concurrently? I am considering this for myself and noticed on pg. 31 of the user manual that this is pictured. I don't have a coax in on my tv.

Thanks